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Author Dean Brandum

Dean Brandum

Dean Brandum gained his PhD at Deakin University in 2016 for analysis of historical box office takings. He has taught at a number of universities in Melbourne and has written for various publications, generally on the topic of film distribution. He maintains the website www.technicolouryawn.com and his book Technicolouryawn: Melbourne drive ins in 1970 will be released later this year.

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Iron Roses: Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorgical Cinema of Jean Rollin, ed. Samm Deighan

Dean Brandum
March 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 86
Like many, I was aware of the films of the French director Jean Rollin long before I viewed any of his work. It would have been some time in the mid-1980s when a horror film magazine I read published a still...
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Revisiting Budd Boetticher: Introduction

Dean Brandum
June 2017
Revisiting Budd Boetticher
Issue 83
For Senses of Cinema, in 2017 to include a dossier devoted to Budd Boetticher may seem a little ‘apropos of nothing’: this is a filmmaker who has always existed on the margins – never rising above the...
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Western/Non-Western Approaches: Refocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher by Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer (eds.)

Dean Brandum
June 2017
Book Reviews
Issue 83
In 1969 Jim Kitses’ Horizons West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: Studies in Authorship within the Western was published.  The three filmmakers considered by the author were, at the time,...
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Deaths in the Afternoon: Arruza (Budd Boetticher, 1972)

Dean Brandum
June 2017
Revisiting Budd Boetticher
Issue 83
On 24 May 1972, The AVCO Center triplex theatre opened on Wiltshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. On two of the screens were the Paramount product the venue had secured a deal to distribute – the Woody Allen...
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Accident (Joseph Losey, 1967)

Dean Brandum
March 2017
Love Letters: 1967
Issue 82
“I felt annoyed. I could not remember being in love. That pain. Defencelessness. I thought – We wish their destruction” – Nicholas Mosley, Accident (1965) Following his foray into big-budget...
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1967 and the Creative Destruction of British Cinema’s Viability on Chicago’s Screens

Dean Brandum
March 2017
Feature Articles
Issue 82
Half a century from the moment when British cinema flickered so brightly as to contend on even footing with Hollywood’s most mainstream product in the American market it remains Alexander Walker’s accounts...
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Fear of a Black Phallus: Jamaa Fanaka’s Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)

Dean Brandum
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
When African-American filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka passed away in 2012, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Jan-Christopher Horak stated that Fanaka was dismayed that his films were picked up...
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Michael Winterbottom by Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams

Dean Brandum
December 2010
Book Reviews
Issue 57
In January 2010, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the first in several stops on the festival circuit before its theatrical release in June of that year....
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A Legacy Went Searching for a Film… Dennis Hopper and Easy Rider

Dean Brandum
April 2010
Feature Articles
Issue 54
There is no getting around it, as a director, Dennis Hopper’s name will live on almost exclusively on the basis of Easy Rider. But the authorship of that film is nowhere near a clear-cut proposition, nor its legacy.

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